The Excavation of a Long Barrow at Nutbane, Hants

Faith de Mallet Morgan

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The Excavation of a Long Barrow at Nutbane, Hants

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Faith de Mallet Morgan

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The excavation of the long barrow at Nutbane, Penton Grafton, Hants, took place from August to October 1957, covering a period of nine weeks, and was carried out by the writer on behalf of the Andover History Group. The barrow, which was not included in the Ordnance Survey's Map of Neolithic Wessex (1932), had only been discovered at the end of 1955 when the attention of Ordnance Survey Officers was drawn to its presence by Mr North of Penton Mewsey. Describing the barrow to Mr W. Woodhouse of the Ordnance Survey on 10 December 1955, Mr North stated: ‘In this field is a mound which, when ploughed, shows as an oval area of chalk. Black marks can be seen on either side. I dug a pit about 5 feet deep in the mound and the chalk was loose and easy to dig. I found nothing’. Mr Woodhouse reported that it was a typical long barrow of Wessex type. Later an air photograph provided confirmation and indicated the flanking ditches.

Type: Research Article
Information: Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 25 , December 1959 , pp. 15 - 51

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^{page 44 note 23} NDV, 1941, p. 29 ff. Barbed-wire decoration discussed by Smith, I. F., 11th Ann. Report. Inst. Arch., 1955, p. 29 ff.Google Scholar; Modderman, loc. cit., in note 21, 32 ff.; Glasbergen and Van der Waals, loc. cit., in note 9, p. 42 note 2.

^{page 44 note 24} Ermelose Heide, Barrow II, Modderman, loc. cit. in note 13, 22, fig. 5. Pot-beaker sherds were secondary, fig. 6.

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^{page 44 note 26} E.g., Glasbergen and Van der Waals, loc. cit., in note 9, 35, based on some radiocarbon tests.

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